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Originally Posted by Wolven
To be more accurate, we traded a guy who made it known he was leaving whether we liked it or not. He gave a short list of teams that he was willing to go to with an extension and we were lucky to get what we did as the rumoured return from the Blues was much worse.
You make it sound like there was an option where we could keep Tkachuk, which is not true. Once Brad gave him that bridge contract the risk of him forcing his way out went up dramatically.
This is likely one of the reasons so many young stars are getting big contracts now instead of bridge deals.
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Yeah the bridge was a mistake but I dont think that it became impossible to re-sign him once it was signed. Calgary didn't offer to back up the truck for him and didn't capitulate to his room/leadership demands. We wanted to keep our club culture.